Email is good.

Rands, in I Hate Fish, says he’s conquered email after struggling with it for a long time:

Are you still struggling with your email inbox? I’m not. It’s been years.

Which basically boils down to two rules:

1. All irrelevant emails are addressed immediately.
2. All relevant emails are acted on. Without fail.

It’s always elbow grease that gets it done in the end.

Your job is to push through the work. To find the essential work that creates the most value. For every action that creates an additional signal in your to-do list, there must be an opposite reaction that removes something else. Your most valuable asset at work is your time.